[MUSIC] Welcome, I'm Richard Boyatzis. And on behalf of my colleagues, Professors Diana Ellen Melvin Smith, and Ron Frey. I'd like to bring you the fifth MOOC in our leadership specialization in inspiring leadership, called, be a leader, develop a leader. In this MOOC you'll have two assignments to give you more practice at being a leader. And two assignments to give you practice in developing others as leaders. Up to this point, you've gone through four MOOCs. You've learned about inspiring leadership through emotional intelligence. You've learned about engaging people in inspirational conversations through coaching. And women in leadership. And then positive change through appreciative inquiry. We now are at the point where we want to give you a chance to practice some of the skills and techniques and perspectives you've been learning in the other MOOCs. In a sense, following intentional change theory, this is the actual fourth stage where you've been experimenting with each of these activities and applying them to yourself and others in the book. Now, we're going to give you another chance, but at this point, it should be more practicing. And if all goes well with the feedback, by the end of this MOOC you may be able to live your life. Inspire your family, your friends and your colleagues to do things that would be great for your organizations, for your communities, and like I said, for your families. This MOOC has a fairly simple structure. There are four assignments, one coming out of each of the prior MOOCs. From the first MOOC, we're asking you to do a more detailed version of your personal vision. In the inspiring leadership through emotional intelligence MOOC I had asked you to, several times, get involved in developing parts of your vision. Well, now we're going to give you some more detailed questions in the written instructions and guide you through writing a more holistic, more comprehensive vision. We're targeting something in the 1,000 to 1,500 words, but something where you feel like it could capture what really will pull you to a desired future. The second assignment, building on that, would come from the course on inspiring conversations through coaching that Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Osteen and I did. And in this one we're going to ask you to go out and find another person that you did not coach through the MOOC. And give them the complete coaching cycle, through the entire internal change five stages. Specifically, we're asking you to have three one hour coaching sessions with them. One, the first one primarily focused on bringing out their personal vision. Their image of the future they would love to happen. The second hour, engaging them in a conversation about their strengths and about their weaknesses. And in the third hour, helping them work into a plan. A plan that they're excited about for the future. We're hoping that these three one hour sessions are spaced out by at least three or five days, or maybe even a week, to give the other person that you're coaching a chance to reflect on these issues. Here again, we're going to ask you to write it up in five or six pages, should be between a 1,000 and 1,500 words. And to address some of the specific topics that are outlined in the written assignment. The third action learning assignment comes from Professor MOOC on women in leadership. We'd like you to identify two senior executive women in your organization, or another one. And then we want you to interview them and find out about their path, their career path, their life path. What are the kinds of people that have helped them along the way? What are the kinds of obstacles they've run into? What's the nature of what they've been able to achieve and how they got there that might be particular to women and sometimes members of other visible minority groups, when they can finally reach top leadership positions? Again, in writing it up, submitting it in about a 1,000 to 1,500 word essay. The fourth assignment comes out of Professor Ron Frye's MOOC on leading positive change through appreciative inquiry. And for this we're going to ask you to expand and redo one of the sets of assignments you did in his MOOC. So, we're going to ask you to think about in your organization, or if you're not working in one right now then at least an organization that you are affiliated with in the community or professionally. To think about, what are the compelling topics or challenges the organization is facing and how can you frame them in a positive way? And then, to design an appreciative inquiry summit process that you can use following the various steps that Professor Frye explained. Get it to the point where it’s detailed enough that, by the time you do it, it’s going to feel like deja vu. Again, we’d like you to write it up in about 1,000 to 1,500 word essay and submit it. Each one of these essays will then be previewed by others of you taking this capstone MOOC. So again, the objectives of this MOOC are simply, one, to really give you a chance to practice the fundamental skills and knowledge that you were exposed to, and got a little bit of a chance to work on in the earlier four MOOCs. And secondly, to form a capstone, if you will, recognition that you've reached a higher state of understanding and skills. And that you're ready to share more of these capabilities with others around you. And through that, help make your organizations a better place. So, we look forward to reading your assignments, and good luck. [MUSIC]
